Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success against Poverty?

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than Africa as a whole. Within five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While ackn...

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4864